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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 14, 1944
(It was Thursday)
J. Gene Losee, salesman for
Cullen Motor and Implement
company, wins second prize in
national tractor sales letter con
test. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The .Yule
prospects are dark. There looms
a lack of whiskey to drink and
a lack of cigarettes to take the
taste out of the swigger's
mouth.
20 YEARS AGO ' : '
Dec. 14. 1934
(It was Friday) Jt
P. G. Denson, manager ' of
Medford hotel, returns from
hotel association convention - in
Seattle and reports hotel busin
ess is improving.
: Fred Waun, J. E. Gribble, and
E. J. Halley, all of Medford,
among prize winners in photo
graphy contest sponsored by
Shasta-Cascade Wonderland as
sociation. 30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 14, 1924
(It "was Sunday)
Internal revenue collector re
ports that 754 residents of Med
ford paid income taxes during
1924.
Jackson county sheriff inves
tigates reports that. some local
residents are drinking rubbing
alcohol.
40 YEARS AGO . ...
Dec 14, 1914
(It was Monday)
Ralph Cowgill to introduce
measure in Oregon legislature
to protect bears in Jackson
county.
Court Hall returns from Port
land where he spent three days
"studying traffic problems and
the 1915 autos."
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1954. Editorial 'Research Report
1. The French-German agree
ment on the Saar industrial area
calls for it to be returned to
Germany, annexed to France or
internationalized?
2. More U.S. transit passengers
travel by bus than by street-car,
subway and elevated lines com
bined; right or wrong?
3. Instalment . buying these
days is relatively high or low, or
about average?
'4. First day of a month con
taining a Friday the , 13th is al
ways a Friday, a Sunday, a Sat
urday or a Thursday?
5. President . Coolidge was a
Harvard graduate; right or
wrong? " ' '
6. A "Mig" is a Russian , sub
marine, aviator, type of atomic
bomb, plane, or secret agent
.within U. S. labor unions? -
7. Lady Godiva was a famous
court beauty, , dressmaker, old
English dance, Shakespearean
character, or horseback rider?
Answers: I. Internationalized.
2. Right. 3. Relatively high. 4. A
Sunday. 5. Wrong. He was grad
uated from Amherst. 6. Plane.
7. She made a famous ride on a
horse.
The longest straight stretch of
railroad track in the United
States is 78.86 miles between
Wilmington and Hamlet, N.C
MAIL TRIBUNE
Is the Honeymoon Over?
The new Premier of Japan says he favors a con
tinuation of the pro-America policy of his predeces
sor. He could hardly say the reverse. -
But in all probability the post-war honeymoon
between the USA and Japan is over, and while Ja
pan's traditional enemy is Russia, there promises to
be a gradual reapproachment between Tokio and
Moscow, as well as Tokio and Pekin.
The reason?
Japan can't live economically without increased
foreign trade, and particularly with Red China.. 1
But the American policy is to further restrict trade
with Red China, not only from Japan, but from all
countries east and west, north and south. -
JAPAN under the new regime will want increased
trade also with the United States, formerly her
best customer.
But this will be fought bitterly by American manu
facturers of pottery and china, textiles, and fabrics,
canned sea-food, fish and vegetables, makers . of
electric-light bulbs and lamps, floor-coverings, em
broideries and various cheap toys, gadgets, etc., etc.
LIEARINGS opened in Washington yesterday on a
"new reciprocal' trade treaty with Japan. The
hearings promise to last a long time and to be super
heated at times.
- It is to be hoped, however, no matter how tempers
and self-interests may flare, two important facts will
not be overlooked namely: " ".
1. Japan MUST have greatly increased foreign
trade to survive as a free and independent nation.
2. If this is not possible because of American op
position or anything else, Japan will be lost as an
ally against the spread of communism in the Far
East
This is just one of many difficult and potentially
dangerous problems, facing the present administra
tion during the next two years, for which a satisfac
tory solution must be found. R.W.R.
The Truth About Wayne Morse
"The US News and World Report" has issued a
"special reprint" of its article "Wayne Morse tells
his own story."
We wish every voter would read it. .
But of course every voter won't. In fact there are
some Republicans who are so venomously prejudiced
where Oregon's junior Senator is concerned, that
they don't read about him, don't want the facts con
cerning him, just want to enjoy undisturbed the lux
ury, of hating. him.r
- However these "haters" are fortunately in a de
cided minority. And as the months pass, their num
bers will decrease, as they always do after a heated
campaign.
MEANWHILE those who seek the truth, and don't
allow their emotions to overcome their judg
ments, should get a copy of this reprint and read it
over carefully. ,
It is particularly valuable because the interview is
conducted by an editorial conference hostile to Sen
ator Morse and entirely in sympathy with those, who
oppose him. There can therefore be no charge of a
pro-Morse slant quite, the contrary in fact.
Oregon's "Independent" Senator is, in other
words, put on the spot. He is asked about every phase
of his senatorial career, why he did this, why he did
that, why he didn't do something else. No holds are
barred, no punches pulled.
Voters who are. seeking the facts of our political
life, regardless of whether those facts please or dis
please, will be interested in this story of one of the
most controversial figures ever to enter American
public life.
We shall leave it up to those who DO read it, as
to the verdict R.W.R.
He Won't Like It
Senator Knowland says he wants to read the
terms of the new alliance between this country and
Chiang Kai-shek before he passes judgment on it.
And he doesn't intend to skip any of the "fine print."
This is quite in character.
California's senior Senator is a law unto himself,
much as certain other anti -
although few of them so
make some more political
self he will have no scruples about it.
.
Our prediction is he won't like this new arrange
ment any better than he did the old one under Tru
man. ,
For not only does Knowland want to get tough
with Red China. He is a strong supporter of Chiang,
Mrs. Chiang and the Nationalists.
Contrary to popular belief this new treaty does
not "unleash" Chiang. It merely pledges U.S. support
to Chiang if he is attacked on Formosa or any nearby
islands which are "strategic."
.
IN FACT Chiang is told, not directly but clearly by
implication that if he should start any invasion
of the mainland of China on his own, he would get
no US support, not so much as a gun, a plane or a
boat - .
Whether the California Senator will consider the
present, moment propitious from a political angle to
openly oppose this alliance remains to be seen, but
he can hardly be expected to wax enthusiastic over
it R.W.R. ... .
Tuesday December 14, 1954
Eisenhower senators are
often admit it. If he can
capital for 1956 for him
SUGGESTED BIBLE
READING
The American Bible So
ciety, the Medford Ministerial
Association and the Medford
Council of Church Women
are cooperating in sponsoring
daily Bible reading in the
period between Thanksgiving
and Christmas
The suggested scripture
reading for today is:
John 14.
!n the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The world's biggest warship,
the atomic bomber carrier For
restal, is floated and christened
at Newport News, Va.
The Forrestal is the biggest
warship EVER built. Her flight
deck (from which bombers carry
ing atom bombs will take off) is
1036 feet long approximately a
fifth of a mile. It is 262 feet
wide at its widest point.
That is to say:
The Forrestal, when completed
and ready for service, will be a
floating .airfield that can be
moved to any point in the world
where we might need to launch
bombers carrying atom bombs,
A FEW more statistics on the
big ship's size:
From keel to masttop, she will
be as tall as a 25-story skyscrap
er. , So that she will be able to
pass under bridges, her masts
wUl fold. The power required
to move and handle her will be
somewhat over 200,000 horse
power. Here's a comparison:
That will be in the general
neighborhood of a third of the
power output of Bonneville dam.
ANOTHER comparison:
The Forrestal is big, but
she isn't as big as the British
Queens, the Elizabeth and the
Mary. Her displacement, fully
loaded with ammunition, stores
and planes, will be about 75,000
tons.
The Queen Elizabeth displaces
83,673 tons and the Queen Mary
81,235 tons.
TITAYBE you're fuzzy about
Displacement is the weight of
water displaced by a floating
body. The weight of the water
(or other fluid) displaced by a
floating' body, in this case a ship,
is equal to that of the displacing
body.
That is how sh.ips are
"weighed." They, can't be put
on the scales. They're too big.
THE Forrestal has been a con
trnvprsial iceno cinro cTna tiroe
first planned by the navy. The
air force argued that was too
much money to put into a float
ing airfield that might be sunk
by a single well-placed bomb.
British Field Marshal Montgom
ery recently asserted that the 'day
of the aircraft carrier is ap
proaching its end.
At the big ship's launching,
Navy Secretary Charles Thomas
said, presumably in answer to
these criticisms:
"The Forrestal will be our
most versatile and DISPERS
ABLE weapon . .. . Such a car
rier will be able to carry our
air power to parts of the world
where no comparable ' friendly
force can be found or maintained
. . . With its speed of up to 40
miles per hour, the Forrestal
will be a phantom target for any
enemy.
THE big carrier, you see, is a
gamble.
. Here is an interesting thought:
Back in the Civil War, the
Monitor (our first ironclad war
ship) was a gamble. AH kinds
of fun was poked at her. Among
other things, she was called a
"cheesebox on a raft."
But the Monitor arrived in
Hampton Roads just in the nick
of time to vanquish the Marri
mac, an ironclad that had been
built by the Confederates and
which when the Monitor ar
rived was sinking the wooden
ships of the Union navy just
about as fast as they could be got
in the sights of the Merrimac's
guns.
Nobody ever knows in ad
vance whether or not a gamble
wiU pay off.
r
HOW big a gamble is the For
restal? Her cost wUl be about $197,
000,000. Assuming that our pres
ent population is about 160,000,
000, the Forrestal will cost each
American individual about
$1.25.
If the Forrestal should happen
at some time in the future to
arrive on a critical scene at a
moment, as did the Monitor; and
should perform as effectively as
did the Monitor, the gamble in
volved in her building would
pay off in a big. way..
In a Southern Association
baseball game with KnoxvUle
on Aug. 27, 1940, the first 13
Memphis batters reached first
base safely. ?
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Matter of Fact
UNDERGROUND GOVERN
MENT IN VIET NAM
Saigon, Viet Nam For once
in a way, there is some truth in
Communist propaganda.
The Viet Minn radio constant
ly denounces the South Viet
namese government here in Sai
gon as a mere
shadow of a
shadow; and
that, for the
time being at
least, is exact
ly what - it is.
If South Viet
Nam can be
said to have a
government at
all, at present,
it is tht iinlor.
Joseph Alsop ground gov
ernment of the Viet Minh.
In this rich, fantastically cor
cupt city, where the same gangs
ters who ran the gambling, the
prostitution and the opium dens
also wear the uniforms of the
police, , you do not get many
echoes of the real state of af
fairs in the Vietnamese country
side. Life goes on in Saigon as
though the fate of Hanoi were
something that had happened on
another planet.
Yet the really important poli
tical process in Southern Indo
china is not the dreary round of
intrigue among the non-Communist
Vietnamese political
leaders in Saigon. It is, rather,
the progressive take over of the
rest of South Viet Nam by the
Communists.
Under the terms of the Gene
va agreement, of course, the
Viet Minh forces were to evacu
ate South Viet Nam, just as the
French forces were to evacuate
the North. The Communists reg
ulars, which formerly held four
large areas here in the South,
are indeed being moved out as
promised. But Communist ca
dres are being left behind.
. More important still, the Ge
neva agreement and the subse
quent transfer of authority to
the Vietnamese left an almost
total power vacuum in huge
areas which the Communists did
not formerly hold. Because of its
quarrel with the army, and be
cause of its own inherent weak
ness too, the government of
President Ngo Dinh-diem has
hardly attempted to govern.
TTENCE it has been only too
"easy for the Viet Min& to
send their cadres out into the
providences, and to establish
themselves in village after .vil
lage. "Committees to defend the
peace ' are organized and be
come, a real village governments.
After these come "committees to
defend the interests of the peas
ants and workers," which are
the Viet Minh disguised courts,
ana innumerable women s or
ganizations and the like which
are instruments of propaganda
The villagers see no other
real authority that reaches down
to them. Both vjUagers and
townspeople have been deeply
impressed by the Viet Minh vie
tory at Dienbienphu and all its
volcanic sequels. They would
tend in any case to regard the
Viet Minh as the wave of the
future. And since there is no
counter effort to balance the
work of the Viet Minh cadres,
village after village passes into
Viet Minh control. .
The estimates vary as to how
far this process has gone al
ready. But the examples cited
plainly suggest that it has gone
very far indeed. For instance, at
Ben Tri.Col. Leroy, a French of
ficer who is himself half Viet
namese, formerly ruled a pro
vince that- was celebrated for
its immunity ; to Communist
peneration. By imaginative re
form and by organizing at the
village level, Col. Leroy achiev
ed positive, solid anti-Communist
unity, among his people.
Then Col. 1 Leroy was transfer
red. Geneva left a vacuum at
Ben Tri as elsewhere. And to
day, among Ben Tri's hundreds
of villages there are reported to
be less than a score which still
have the "Council of Notables"
which is the Saigon govern
ment's instrument of village ad
ministration. In most of the rest,
"Peace Committees" rule.
A few days ago, this reporter
visited the rubber planting re
gion near the Cambodian bor
der. Here the big plantations
had fortified themselves, created
small armies, and carried on
rubber production right through
the civil war. Immediately, after
Geneva, '. however, Viet Minh
organizers entered the villages
of. the rubber workers.
-
rpODAY, one of the biggest
A plantations is already under
effective Viet Minh control,
with the French manager run
ning the plantation through the
Viet Minh leader with excel
lent production results, inciden
tally. The other planters were
not prepared to submit in this
manner, but they frankly said
it was only "a matter of weeks"
before the Viet Minh would be
deeply entranched as the real
government of their region.
There is no violence. On the
Phone 2-6780
b7 Joseph ap
surface, life goes on as usual, or
rather better than usual, for the
rubber planters and their fami
lies no longer wear revolvers
and carry submachine guns to
their swimming pool on Sundays.
But every day there is a new
sign, such as the recent arrest
of the father-in-law of the pres
ent Foreign Minister of South
Viet Nam for joining in found
ing a peace committee here in
Saigon.
The signs aU point the same
way, towards the creation of an
effective though underground
government of South Viet Nam
by the Communists. The end is
not yet. A strong and efficient
non-Communist govern ment,
working closely with the Viet
namese army, re-establishing au
thority in the countryside, carry
ing out the needed reforms
could still halt and roll back the
process of Communist penetra
tion. But there is very little time
and as these words are written
no such non-Communist govern
ment is in sight.
Copyright. 1954. New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.
Interior Employee
Given Medal for
Rescue of Three
Washington U.R) Secretary
of Interior Douglas McKay to
day presented the department's
distinguished service award to
an employee who risked his life
to rescue a child, and her moth
er, and another woman from
drowning in the Colorado river
at Needles, Calif.
Raleigh J. Sanderson, Needles,
was erven the award at an
awards convocation. It consisted
of a citation, certificate, gold
medal, and lapel pin. . ;
Swept Into Stream
Sanderson, an employee of
th Bureau of Reclamation, per
formed the triple rescue on
July 16, 1953. A child had
waded beyond her depth and
was swept mto midstream. Her
motner and a. woman compan
ion, neither of whom could
swim, attempted to rescue her
and were swept into the swift
current. . ,
; Sanderson, working on a boat
nearby, plunged into the water
and reached the child. As he
was carrying her to shore, he
passed close to the two women.
They grabbed him . about . the
body, pulling him under. After
a struggle, he succeeded in
bringing them to the shore.
Alabama Attorney
To Fight Extradition
. Galveston, Tex. U.R) A
lawyer said today that Alabama
Atty.. Gen. Silas Garrett, who is
charged with murdering the man
elected to succeed him, wiU fight
any effort to make, him leave a
Galveston mental hospital until
doctors say he is able. .
Garrett was served yesterday
in his hospital room with the
indictment charging he "unlaw
fully and with malice afore
thought killed Albert L. Patter
son by shooting him with a gun."
Patterson was . the crusader
murdered last ; June in Phenix
City, Ala.; the city he had prom
ised to clean up because it had
become so infamous for its com
mercialized vice.
HEIRESS TO FLY
Mexico "City (U.R) Dimestore
heiress Barbara Hutton, using
the name of a husband she dis
carded several years ago, was
scheduled to fly to Los Angeles
today: She has been visiting
friends, at the nearby resort of
Cuernavaca, where she has an
estate, for more than a month.
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In Our Millinery Department
Mail and
Phone
Orders
Filled
Railroad Will Link
China and Mongolia
With Soviet Russia
By CHARLES M. MeCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
A brief broadcast from Peip
ing reported Monday that the
first train on a new railroad
which is .to
link Commun
ist China, Out
er Mongolia
and Soviet
Russia had
reached the
Mongolian bor
der. It was not
a very exciting
announcement.
But in its po-
Chain- Mctaan wpuauues lor
the future it was real news.
The dispatch is a reminder
that Communist China and Rus
sia are building, with the sweat
of countless thousands of slave
laborers, a vast rail network that
will open up aU of that part of
East Asia.
It has been long known that
that network was under con
struction. In fact,' parts of it
were started, on the Chinese
side by the. Nationalists long be.
fore the Communists overran
the mainland five years ago.
i But construction has b e en
speeded since then, and any re
port of progress is not good news
for the West.
Expects Completion in '56
Nationalist Generalissi
mo Chiang Kai-shek estimated
last October, on the basis of his
intelligence reports, that the net
work wUl be completed in 1956.
Then Russia will be in con
trol of the great Eurasian land
mass and clearly wUl be in a
strong position to match the
power of the United States and
Great Britain, . unafraid of any
air power which may be thrown
against it," Chiang said.
He predicted that by 1956 Red
China would be prepared, with
Stepfather Held
In Girl's Death
San Bruno U.R) Police to
day, held for questioning the
stepfather of a young; Negro
woman, who died shortly after
she was found in a roadside ditch
with her throat slashed and her
clothes afire.
The victim was" Dorothy M.
Cheeks, 18, a June graduate of a
San Francisco high school. She
was raped and beaten before her
body was drenched with gaso
line and set afire, police said.
Her stepfather is S. J. Curry,
41, a longshoreman.
On Remote Road
Dorothy, nude from the waist
down, was found writhing last
night beside a remote Peninsula
road leading to the San Francisco
County Jail just off Skyline
Boulevard. She died at Peninsula
Hospital in nearby Burlingame
at 9:16 p.m.
Police said they found Curry
evasive, expressing no curious-
ity after they told him Dorothy
was dead about how she had
been killed.
Blood-Stained Slacks Found
Rummaging through, two ash
cans outside Curry's apartment
police found a pair of gray slacks
and a suede sports jacket, blood
stained and ripped into shreds. In
Curry's apartment was found a
pair of blood-tained shoes.
Through all questioning, the
stepfather remained silent, say
ing only he had not seen Dorothy
since she left the apartment yes
terday to go shopping.
For Questioning
(A) Beautime .
(B) Two-toned Turban.
- - -j "
(C) Fringed Clip Cap.
completion of the network, fo
a war m the Pacific. He predict
ed also that Russia would start
a general war.
A lot of things could happen
before 1956, and Chiang's pre
dictions may have been a little
on the pessimistic side.
But the railroads will link sol
idly two vast Communist-ruled
countries and give them com
munications which for the first
time wUl r permit a swift, big
scale movement of men and sup
plies. Also Link With Indochina
The railroads also will link
with Chinese Red lines that run
southward to the Indochina iron
tier. - : -
The network which the Peip-
ing broadcast mentioned is to
extend from Tsining, about 200
miles west-northwest of Peiping,
to Ulan Bator, capital of the
Soviet-satellite state of Outer
Mongolia. , .-,
Peiping said that the line had
reached, on the Chinese side,, a
frontier whistle-stop named
Ehrlien. Ehrlien is on the border
of Inner Mongolia. Thence the
road will extend through Inner
Mongolia to Outer Mongolia, on
the northwest.
V "Railroads Minister Teng Tai
Yuan, who was on the first
train, told the 700 people gath
ered at the tiny halt of Ehrlien
that completion of the present
section of the line will add to
Inner Mongolia's economic and
cultural advance," Peiping said.
But the Reds are building the
network for economic and mili
tary purposes. It will connect
Red China with Russia's Trans
Siberian railroad at points along
a line extending from Eastern
Siberia to Alma Ata, in the Sov
iet Kazakh Republic in Central
Asia. . ..
Whatever the motive of the
Reds in speeding construction, it
is hardly likely they have in
mind their campaign of "peace
ful co-existence." '
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